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tverbeureyesterday at 11:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

Similarly, if you have one of those office chairs with a pneumatic shock, dropping down hard on the chair may induce an electromagnetic or ESD pulse that shocks the monitor.

There’s a video on YouTube about this somewhere and we were able to confirm their findings.


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reddalotoday at 12:02 AM

Oh my god, so THAT'S WHY sometimes when I get up from the chair in my office, the screen flashes black for a brief moment?!

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taneqtoday at 4:11 AM

I have a Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor and it’s so sensitive to EMFs, it’ll blink off for a moment when I take my jumper off.